Culled from her collections Offshore Islands and Paradise or Purgatory (1984), New Brunswick Islands is part ecocritical exploration and part historical survey, as Mitcham explores the province’s not-so-far-off islands in search of...
New Brunswick
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Author:Mitcham, AllisonSummary: -
Author:Poitras, JacquesSummary:Shortlisted Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing. Once, a single francophone settlement shared both sides of the Saint John River, until a political trade-off between...
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Author:Winters, MichelleSummary:Agathe and Réjean Lapointe are about to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary when Réjean's beloved Chevy Silverado is found abandoned at the side of the road--with no trace of Réjean. As her hope dwindles, Agathe falls in...
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Author:Dallison, Robert L.Summary:Few Canadians realize how close the colony of Nova Scotia came to joining the American Revolutionary War in 1775. Many Nova Scotians were immigrants from New England, including the Planters who, some twenty years earlier, had taken over...
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Author:Powning, BethSummary:Home is like a leaf on a tree: other people, other homes, are the other leaves. They live beneath the same sky, share the same memories, survive the same storms. After twenty-five years on a New Brunswick farm, Beth Powning came to...
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Author:Campbell, WandaSummary:Pertice McIlveen, a young Ontario woman who loves Hemingway and hates hats, receives a mysterious key in the mail. Accompanied by her best friend Es, she travels to Gannet Island off the coast of New Brunswick to find the door it fits...
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Author:Foster, CharlesSummary:Imagine receiving a mysterious invitation from Charlie Chaplin, doing jigsaw puzzles with Marilyn Monroe, having a heart-to-heart with Jack Kennedy, or being kissed by Greta Garbo. All of these and more are the sensational memories of...
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Author:Lee, PhilipSummary:Goose Lane Editions has released a biography that reveals the private world of one of Canada’s most fascinating politicians. Almost four years after stepping down as Premier of New Brunswick, Frank McKenna is as much on the minds of...
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Author:Daigle, France, Majzels, RobertSummary:For Sure is among other things a labyrinth, a maze, an exploration of the folly of numbers, a repository, a defense and an illustration of the Chiac language. Written in dazzling prose — which is occasionally interrupted by surprising...
- Author:Richards, David Adams, Paquin, Robert, Steenhout, Ivan, Raoult, Marie-Madeleine, Pana, OliviaSummary:
Somptueux roman dans la plus pure tradition des grandes sagas nord-américaines, Enquête dans la réserve nous plonge dans l’univers des Premières Nations. Dans la baie de Miramichi, par une belle journée ensoleillée de juin 1985, Hector...
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Author:Foot, RichardSummary:Shortlisted, East Coast Literary Award and Evelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction. It was over in seconds. In the early hours of January 12, 2008, seven members of a high school basketball team and their coach’s wife died instantly...
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In 2009, the New Brunswick provincial government provided a licence to search over a million hectares of land to Texas-based Southwestern Energy for the purposes of natural gas extraction. For years, tens of thousands of New...
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Author:Nowlan, Alden, Bartlett, BrianSummary:Alden Nowlan (1933-1983) once wrote of a desire to leave behind "one poem, one story / that will tell what it was like / to be alive." In an abundance of memorable poems, he fulfilled this desire with candour and subtlety, emotion, and...
- Author:Couturier, GraciaSummary:
Deux frères que tout oppose endurent tant bien que mal l’existence de l’autre. La succession du père, qui a fondé une scierie prospère, vient cristalliser leur rivalité. Incapable de prendre la relève, l’aîné camoufle sa jalousie dans...
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Author:Jarratt, MelyndaSummary:Imagine you're a young woman caught up in the ugly reality of war. You meet and fall in love with a young soldier from a foreign country. You marry and your world is upended: when the war ends, you leave all you've ever known behind -...
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A memoir/comedy book by British-born comedian James Mullinger who relocated from London, UK, to Saint John, New Brunswick. Mullinger discusses his career and provides tales from the road touring Atlantic Canada and further afield.
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Among the Loyalists who were transported to the shores of New Brunswick by the British after their defeat by revolutionary Americans were several hundred African Americans. Like their counterparts who went to what is now Nova Scotia,...
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Author:Nowlan, Alden, Musgrave, SusanSummary:The best of beloved poet Alden Nowlan's explicitly honest, direct, and insightful poetry. Now featuring an introduction by Susan Musgrave Alden Nowlan, one of Canada's finest and most influential poets, died in 1983. He leaves a rich...
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